Politics

[375 Ruger Fan]

Trumps Treasury nominee sounds interesting. Sounds like the threat of tariffs will be ramped up slowly. Walmart CEO says companies won't pay for the tariffs, the customer will. True, but I guess the point of tariffs is to compel companies, like Walmart, to move their supply chain to US based companies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-treasury-pick-bessent-fiscal-011526380.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-just-leveled-americans-china-130053321.html

 

[fourfive8]

I don’t know about anyone else but if private companies are bound and determined to go woke and broke, I’ll gladly get out of the way and let them. No issue unless the gov and my tax money gets involved in trying to bail them out. About the last thing on my mind is worrying about companies like Harley Davidson or Jaguar, their bosses or their future.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

 

[Red Leg]

I have wondered how much of this is going on within the Russian armed forces - in other words how much is being hidden from Putin and his immediate advisors - much less the Russian people.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860314717023076539

 

[roverandbrew]

Having worked with the FBI in a law enforcement capacity I can say that your average agent couldn’t find their behind with both hands and a flashlight.

I do call for the abolishment of the agency, except for the lab, and I neither listen to right wing pundits nor am I ignorant. To say that the agency does not impress me is an understatement.

We need to revamp our entire criminal justice system. That includes the local agencies as well. Law enforcement is a necessary evil that needs to be kept on a very tight, and short, leash.

I have also worked with a lot of FBI CONUS and OCONUS. They are funded well and able to stay ahead of most threats. Local law enforcement is generally 20-40 years behind the threat. My brother is a detective in NC and his department's SWAT is where DOD / HRT was in the late 1970s / 1980s. I audited their training as a consultant and they need help. The problem with most who criticize the FBI have ZERO concept of all they do. The bog standard SA at a local field office is not all the FBI does.

 

[Neophyte]

I have also worked with a lot of FBI CONUS and OCONUS. They are funded well and able to stay ahead of most threats. Local law enforcement is generally 20-40 years behind the threat. My brother is a detective in NC and his department's SWAT is where DOD / HRT was in the late 1970s / 1980s. I audited their training as a consultant and they need help. The problem with most who criticize the FBI have ZERO concept of all they do. The bog standard SA at a local field office is not all the FBI does.

I’m well aware of what they do and don’t do.

You appear to just want to continue working with them because of all the money they have to buy trinkets and mirrors. Step away from the smoke machine and see clearly.

There is no reason another agency dedicated to CONUS and OCONUS threats couldn’t do the job as well or better. I’m aware of a lot of stuff they’ve missed since 9/11. Hoover’s little gay boys aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Truth be told they have a history of being behind when it comes to identifying the threats we are under.

Their lab is pretty good. Other than that I’ll pass on thinking they are synonymous with mom, baseball and apple pie.

 

[roverandbrew]

I’m well aware of what they do and don’t do.

You appear to just want to continue working with them because of all the money they have to buy trinkets and mirrors. Step away from the smoke machine and see clearly.

There is no reason another agency dedicated to CONUS and OCONUS threats couldn’t do the job as well or better. I’m aware of a lot of stuff they’ve missed since 9/11. Hoover’s little gay boys aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Truth be told they have a history of being behind when it comes to identifying the threats we are under.

Their lab is pretty good. Other than that I’ll pass on thinking they are synonymous with mom, baseball and apple pie.

I see things pretty clearly and am pretty relevant still, not coming at this as a "former" anything. I have this same argument with my 80 year old father. Too stubborn for his own good. You appear pretty full of absolutes and negativity in most of your posts. We can agree to disagree.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Tampon Timmy. What a despicable puke. I watched about half of the clip and had to turn it off

I agree but I think it’s a good resource to share with friends who might have been taken in the the “he’s a hunter so he’ll support guns” angle.

I know a few republicans who don’t love trump who were spouting off about Waltz being a vet and a hunter until the facts about his weaseling out of deployment and the pheasant hunting gaff came out.

 

[cash_tx]

Not to drift too far off topic, but this is my favorite take so far on the Jaguar rebranding debacle:

Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars | Jaguar Land Rover | The Guardian

In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, the ad already looks like a period piece. But aside from that – I mean, seriously? says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

amp.theguardian.com

PS - I'm still trying to convince my brain to accept the fact that Pam Bondi is 59. Well preserved indeed...

 

[Doubleplay]

There is a guy screaming at me over on X in all CAPS no less that there was no airplane at the Pentagon. He is particularly immune to the notion that being there and wading through half an acre of aircraft bits trying to pull people out could not be true. I am, therefore, a LIAR.

Would love to take him back there. The passengers were nothing but body parts blown into the building. The kids of the Old Guard, 4th BN 3rd INF, spent the next couple of weeks in bio suits and protective masks collecting them. Due to the heat and trauma they could manage an hour or two at a time.

People get invested in this nonsense or trapped in the rabbit hole and become immune to alternative information. It really is cult-like.

Unfortunately...and most of them are alt right..

 

[steve white]

Just thinking aloud as a layperson, one solution to limit the ESG and other b.s. you mentioned with Fink and other apparently predatory companies like his, would be through legislation to require them to fall under a fiduciary or similar law. That is they couldn’t charge a higher interest rate or deny a loan based on a company’s lack of ESG, DEI, or anything else not related to financial parameters as it could “injure” the client company’s growth and financial stability. Just a thought.

I thought they had a legal obligation to the stockholders?

 

[Neophyte]

I see things pretty clearly and am pretty relevant still, not coming at this as a "former" anything. I have this same argument with my 80 year old father. Too stubborn for his own good. You appear pretty full of absolutes and negativity in most of your posts. We can agree to disagree.

Most definitely will disagree.

 

[Red Leg]

Apparently the anti-vaxer nether regions of Trump World are not pleased - even head exploding despondent - over his choice of Dr. Jannette Nesheiwat as the next Surgeon General. The critics forget that the vaccine (about which Trump has often expressed his pride), initial treatment protocols, school closures, masking, social distancing, etc all were initiated on his watch. Nesheiwat was a voice of medical reason, often on Fox, during those months.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860166893845512466

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860338118680805664

Naturally, the left is also up in arms because in their world view, she is not qualified.

Probably makes her a perfect choice.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

I’m well aware of what they do and don’t do.

You appear to just want to continue working with them because of all the money they have to buy trinkets and mirrors. Step away from the smoke machine and see clearly.

There is no reason another agency dedicated to CONUS and OCONUS threats couldn’t do the job as well or better. I’m aware of a lot of stuff they’ve missed since 9/11. Hoover’s little gay boys aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Truth be told they have a history of being behind when it comes to identifying the threats we are under.

Their lab is pretty good. Other than that I’ll pass on thinking they are synonymous with mom, baseball and apple pie.

They (the FBI) got Dillinger, didn't they?